Orchids for everyone . adapted to cultivation in suspended baskets,it is usual to grow them in pots and stake the growths uprightly,as by this means less room is occupied by each specimen. Whetherpots or baskets are used, it is necessary to provide plenty of cleandrainage material, and place over this a layer of sphagnum beforeproceeding further with the potting. The general potting time isthe Spring, when the new growths are advancing and the flowershave faded. Peat and sphagnum make a suitable compost, and afew broken leaves may be added as the grower comes to understandhis plants and the lo
Orchids for everyone . adapted to cultivation in suspended baskets,it is usual to grow them in pots and stake the growths uprightly,as by this means less room is occupied by each specimen. Whetherpots or baskets are used, it is necessary to provide plenty of cleandrainage material, and place over this a layer of sphagnum beforeproceeding further with the potting. The general potting time isthe Spring, when the new growths are advancing and the flowershave faded. Peat and sphagnum make a suitable compost, and afew broken leaves may be added as the grower comes to understandhis plants and the local climatic conditions. Potting is an easymatter, and consists in placing the compost firmly about the rootsafter any old and sour material has been removed from the is quite unnecessary to allow a large number of old pseudo-bulbsto remain ; one, or at most two, of those previously produced willsufiice. Some growers have been eminently successful withDendrobium nobile even when all the old pseudo-bulbs have. DENDROBIUM BRYMERIAN LiM.
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